SANDEEP SINGH AND GURLAZ KAUR

Roving surveys were conducted in the mango growing areas of Punjab to observe the biodiversity of borer insectpests infesting mango crop, during 2013-2014 and 2014-15 along with fixed plot surveys at Fruit Research Farm and college orchard of Punjab Agricultural University (P.A.U.), Ludhiana. Different life stages of these insect-pests were collected and reared in Fruit Entomology Laboratory in the Department of Fruit Science. Samples of these insect-pests were sent to concerned taxonomists at different laboratories for identification. The results of this study reports five borer insect-pests, infesting different parts of mango plants in Punjab. Mango fruit borer, ( ) (Guenee), mango shoot borer, (Walker), trunk borer, (L.) & , bark eating caterpillar, sp. and buprestid stem borer, (Thunberg) were observed in mango orchards in Punjab.